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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

This is is in many respects a successor to a blog post I wrote last year. about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. The genesis. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? But only a couple of years later, I was running a bunch of stuff on top of AWS.

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Defining Cybersecurity – What You Need to Know to Stay Safe Online

The Crazy Programmer

If you’re like most people, you probably think of “hacking” when you hear the word “cybersecurity.” And while hacking is certainly a form of cybersecurity, it’s just one aspect of this complex field. In this article, we’ll discuss what cybersecurity is and why it’s important for organizations to employ it.

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12 Powerful Phrases to Help You Navigate Challenging Workplace Conflict

Let's Grow Leaders

Prepare for Workplace Conflicts. with a few “Go-To” Conversation Starters. Have you ever felt this way? You’re in the middle of a challenging workplace conflict, and you’re at a complete loss for words. You’re mad. They’re mad. Maybe you even say something you can’t take back. And then in the middle of the night, the perfect words come to you.

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Handling personal identifiable information in your data

Xebia

In one of my previous blog posts we discussed a number of data and security-related topics. One of the topics that were discussed was about handling personal identifiable information (PII) data and complying with regulations like GDPR. In this blog post, I want to dive a bit deeper into that topic and give a few examples of services that can be used for handling Personal Identifiable Information in your data with AWS.

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Prevent Data Breaches With Zero-Trust Enterprise Password Management

Keeper Security is transforming cybersecurity for people and organizations around the world. Keeper’s affordable and easy-to-use solutions are built on a foundation of zero-trust and zero-knowledge security to protect every user on every device. Our next-generation privileged access management solution deploys in minutes and seamlessly integrates with any tech stack to prevent breaches, reduce help desk costs and ensure compliance.

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JFrog Adds Module to Better Secure Software Supply Chains

DevOps.com

JFrog today added a JFrog Advanced Security module to its Artifactory repository that enables DevOps teams to scan both binaries and source code for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Stephen Chin, vice president of developer relations for JFrog, said that approach will enable DevOps team to ensure applications are secure before they are deployed in a production […].

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5 Tech Roles Still In Demand in 2022

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

On any given day, you can be sure that there are tons of tech roles that are always in demand, the game is to know which ones. One reason for that is the ever-advancing technology and its requirements. To fulfill those requirements, there are new tech roles added periodically. Furthermore, let’s not forget that the pandemic sort of gave the tech world a gentle nudge to further itself in every way.

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Three Essential Rules for Influencing Your Colleagues

Next Level Blog

One of the big differences between leaders who shape the bigger picture for a company and those that hit a ceiling and stay stuck in their functional roles is that the big picture leaders are way better at influencing their colleagues. I’ve had some amazing big picture leaders and influencers as executive coaching clients over the years and was talking with one of them last week.

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Conversations with Chief Innovators: Revolution Cooking

Modus Create

Welcome to Conversations with Chief Innovators, in which our CEO Pat Sheridan discusses innovation in business with transformational leaders across industries. In the second episode, we bring you Tom Klaff, CEO of Revolution Cooking. Watch the full episode here. $70 billion. That’s the market value of a 10,000-year-old industry — small kitchen appliances.

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Negotiate a balanced product investment mix

Martin Fowler

Rick and Kennedy conclude their article on the bottleneck caused by tension between product and engineering. This final section. addresses balancing between under and over-engineering in the product's technical infrastructure. more….

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Nigerian retail automation platform Bumpa raises $4M, led by Base10 Partners

TechCrunch

Millions of small and medium businesses still operate inefficiently due to dependency on manual processes, which limits their capacity to grow and scale; this is despite contributing to about 48% of Nigeria’s GDP in the last five years, But the tide is turning. Over the last couple of months, we’ve seen a wave of upstarts launching solutions geared toward digitizing small business operations.

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Chipotle’s recipe for digital transformation: Cloud plus AI

CIO

When Curt Garner became Chipotle’s first CIO in 2015, the only technology used for online restaurant ordering was, “believe it or not,” a fax machine, he says. Seven years later, the Newport Beach, Calif.-based company is piloting a system with a robotic arm dubbed “Chippy” that prepares the fast-casual chain’s famed fried salt-and-lime chips homemade every day without human labor, with the aim of tailoring output to the daily needs of each restaurant.

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How to Help Your Team Gain Clarity During Serious Uncertainty [VIDEO]

Let's Grow Leaders

Use These 3 Questions to Help Your Gain Clarity. When So Much is Unknown. When you’re dealing with uncertainty and change , it’s easy to feel like EVERYTHING is uncertain, but that’s seldom true. Help your team differentiate what they know from what they don’t, and empower them to focus on tactical, practical next steps. Today’s Asking for a Friend will help your team gain clarity in uncertainty.

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Bliki: ConwaysLaw

Martin Fowler

Pretty much all the practitioners I favor in Software Architecture are deeply suspicious of any kind of general law in the field. Good software architecture is very context-specific, analyzing trade-offs that resolve differently across a wide range of environments. But if there is one thing they all agree on, it's the importance and power of Conway's Law.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, Terrence Sheflin, and Mahyar Ghasemali

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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Zombie startups

TechCrunch

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. People leave jobs for all kinds of reasons, but when it’s a CFO departing a richly valued company as the company itself conducts layoffs, the exodus can be a sign of a larger issue. This was one of the takeaways I had when chatting with Continuum CEO and co-founder Nolan Church about a recent spree of CFO resignations, including but not limited to OpenSea,

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The CIO as chief integration (and influence) officer

CIO

IT leaders hold a powerful position at Owens Corning. CIO Steve Zerby not only has a seat at the table, but he’s driving business strategy at the manufacturing company thanks to his panoptic view of the centralized yet global organization. He’s able to spot synergies in supply chain processes that could create efficiencies, and connect leaders in high-performing geographies with lower-performing regions that could benefit from their perspective — even if they’re not in the same business division

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When Self-Service DevOps Forgets Who it Serves

DevOps.com

For years, self-service has been touted as the salvation of DevOps. Why? Well, every department in your organization has its own reasons for putting self-service DevOps at the top of its wish list: ? Ops teams need to ensure high availability, performance and security ? Dev teams need speed, self-sufficiency and transparency ? Security teams […].

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Creating multidisciplinary stream-aligned teams to escape the product-vs-engineering bottleneck

Martin Fowler

Rick and Kennedy continue explaining how to deal with the lack of. collaboration between product and engineering. This installment advises creating multidisciplinary stream-aligned teams and establishing team working agreements. more….

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2024 Salary Guide

Procom’s 2024 Salary Guide provides critical insights into the latest hiring trends, in-demand IT roles, and competitive pay rates across Canada and the U.S. It highlights key market dynamics such as the growing demand for remote work, skills-based hiring, and flexible staffing solutions. With detailed pay rate data for top IT positions like Cybersecurity Consultants, Cloud Engineers, and Salesforce Developers, this guide is an essential resource for companies looking to stay competitive in toda

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Revyze is building the TikTok of educational videos

TechCrunch

Meet Revyze , a French startup that is developing a mobile app for iOS and Android at the intersection of education and social. In many ways, Revyze looks just like TikTok. But it is focused specifically on educational content for teenagers. “We talked with kids attending 30 or 35 different high schools,” co-founder Florent Sciberras told me. “We asked them: ‘What do you think about school and what’s the best way to learn?

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Reimagining the new future of work: The CXO’s transformation conundrum

CIO

However we may have defined the “future of work” before 2020, our new reality has advanced technology investments, inspired new operational models, and changed how we work. While the rapid shift to a digital-first world powered by remote work proved mostly successful, some organizations are vying to put the genie back in the bottle by bringing employees back to the office.

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How to Gain a Competitive Advantage on Customer Insights

Harvard Business Review

The most valuable data is the data your competitors don’t have.

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8 Languages for Data Science

TechBeacon

The data keeps coming. The job of a data scientist is to turn all of those endless bits into coherent analysis so that data users can begin to look for answers in the sea of information. The good news is that there are plenty of good programming languages for doing this work. But i s there a best one?

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Even decacorns have their challenges

TechCrunch

Welcome to The Interchange ! If you received this in your inbox, thank you for signing up and your vote of confidence. If you’re reading this as a post on our site, sign up here so you can receive it directly in the future. Every week, I’ll take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon.

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Texas Rangers data transformation modernizes stadium operations

CIO

In 2016, Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers announced it would build a brand-new state-of-the-art stadium in Arlington, Texas. It wasn’t just a new venue for the team, it was an opportunity to reimagine business operations. The old stadium, which opened in 1992, provided the business operations team with data, but that data came from disparate sources, many of which were not consistently updated.

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Four Causes of Technical Debt in DevOps

DevOps.com

Ideally, DevOps should retain a lean footprint, but avoiding technical debt is easier said than done. As such, over half of IT leaders report technical debt is a big or critical problem. Without routinely addressing technical debt, DevOps teams can easily face inconsistencies during deployments. Versioning can get out of hand without consistent upgrades and […].

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Tech Companies Innovate at the Edge. Legacy Companies Can Too.

Harvard Business Review

New tools make it easier to empower small-scale innovation among the employees who work most closely with suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, raises $101M

TechCrunch

Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion , today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. The tranche values the company at $1 billion post-money, according to a Bloomberg source, and comes as the demand for AI-powered content generation accelerates.

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3 ways to deter phishing attacks in 2023

CIO

Retailers are not the only people looking forward to the holiday season. It will be a busy time for scammers and fraudsters too as they send out coupons, deals and offers to consumers, and even thank-you vouchers to employees, purporting to come from organizations and brands they trust. In fact, CIO has reported that it takes only a few minutes for experienced hackers to set up a social engineering attack against enterprises (and their managed service providers) that consider themselves to be se

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Red Hat and IBM Pledge to Bring NLP to Ansible

DevOps.com

At the Ansiblefest 2022 conference today, Red Hat and its parent company IBM announced the Project Wisdom initiative to bring natural language processing (NLP) to the open source Ansible IT operations automation platform. At the same time, Red Hat announced that the curated instances of Ansible from Red Hat are now available in the marketplaces […].